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> Nah FB can drag this through the court system for years or even decades and then find some way to kill Yahoo in the meantime. It's a big distraction for FB.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Nah FB can drag this through the court system for years or even decades and then find some way to kill Yahoo in the meantime.
It's a big distraction for FB. It's not a distraction for Y! (because obviously they don't have much business left in their business). So my guess is that FB settles to get it off their plate.
If FB instead takes the strategy you mention above and blows all that money, I'd love them to death for it. ("You wanna piece of me?! Come over here and let's rumble!" It would tell patent trolls that they are going to have to blow serious money in the future.)
- tomjen3 15y agoDefine distraction? You would need, say 10 full time lawyers on it, assume 200k/year on average, which would cost about 2 million a year. Mark doesn't need to focus on the law suit, instead he can simply spawn of a process and subscribe to its signals (to borrow an OS metaphor).